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The X window system (commonly X Window System or X11, based on its current major version being 11) is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUI) for networked computers.

I'm running VMWare Workstation on Arch Linux with KeePassX set to use ALT + "A" as a global auto-type keybinding.
Prior to running VMware, KeePassX works great. When VMware releases the keyboard from ...

At the beginning, the shell was the only interface for the User, He was able to send through it signals to other processes or launch them or even directly sending calls to the Kernel.
Yet the shell ...

I'm trying to wrap dmenu within some script to feed it input and act on it, however when pressing the Return key to select some dmenu input, a KeyRelease event gets sent to whatever window is focused ...

I have a headless Raspberry Pi running PiBang (swapping to Raspbian soon since PiBang is no longer supported) which I'd like to play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup over ssh. When I try to run
crawl-tiles
...

From the xfce desktop environment in Linux Mint, I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Fn in order to get into a virtual terminal, then I stopped the mdm display manager with killall mdm. So far it worked, but once ...

I was told, in order to just start the x window system, i have to input at the command line: sudo killall mdm. After having done so, my window freezes and i have no further controll, my only option so ...

I have done some tests with 2 NVIDIA cards (not in SLI) and 4 monitors, with nouveau drivers.
Debian 8 testing and Arch are not able to use the 4 monitors at the same time, but somehow Fedora 21 is ...

I'm running a dual-screen setup and have my trackpad disabled most of the time (which includes hiding the mousepointer).
When i reenable the trackpad (and display the mouse pointer again), i've lost ...

I’m using GNOME 3.14.3 on ArchLinux.
If I press Shift+Home (regular Home) while the cursor is placed at the end of a line, the line gets selected. That’s expected.
If I press just the regular Home, ...

I would like to study the behaviour of the Linux operating system when I connect monitor to a VGA port. What exactly happens inside the OS and the Window Manager, which parts of it are responsible for ...

I am using opensuse desktop with two screens, top and bottom. Only the bottom screen is touchscreen, which is USB touchscreen. Both monitors are used as a single screen.
I tried to configure the touch ...

I read tons of info about performance boosting for linux gaming. One of them is to run games on a separate X server.
After hours of search and tries, I ended up with something "working" for most of ...

I am trying to start the X server (I have all the packages installed).
The problem I am having is that the server is offsite, has no screen and never has had a screen connected to it and as a result ...

So I have a problem here. I have a session of ffmpeg -f x11grab running, and suddenly kill -9 or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace comes and GUI dies of course. So far everything seems to be OK.
When I try to play ...

User1 has his home directory on NFS that's mounted by machine1 and machine2, both of which are running Redhat 6.4.
If I ssh -Y user1@machine1 and run gedit, I get "X11 connection rejected because of ...

I have a rather odd setup I'm trying to get working.
I have an Ubuntu install running in a container (through Proxmox). The host computer is CentOS. Neither server is running an X instance.
My host ...

I'm using OpenSUSE 13.2 with openjdk 1.8 and GNOME 3.14 desktop environemnt.
Sometimes when I'm using a java GUI application (Swing) the XServer restarts.
It just restarts. I don't know why, or what ...

I need a script, that will run in terminal (under X11), and wait for a keyboard shortcut (happening anywhere in the desktop environment), once that shortcut (or key press sequence) happens, it will ...

I am trying to find an unmapped window on my X server in order to map it back and send it some EWMH hint. Because the window is unmapped I cannot use EWMH to ask the window manager directly. So I am ...

I'm writing a shell script to change a user's password. I tried to use the passwd command, but that command always asks for the old and new passwords to be typed; it won't accept them from my script.
...

Is there a way to change the icon of an application's window from the command line?
For instance, I'd like to have separate icons for Firefox windows under different profiles (different processes), ...

Usually I only install open source programs on my linux box because I don't trust closed source applications. Recently I had to use Dropbox for a university project. I created a separate linux account ...

I have a problem with my Linux: I plugged an additional hard drive into my computer to finally install linux also on my gaming PC since its way faster. I'm using a Logitech G600 mouse and whenever I ...

in Ubuntu (or for that matter most other linux distros), I could use the shortcut ctrl+t to open a new tab (in firefox or similar), or I could use alt+tab to make unity switch highlighted window, or I ...